This week I started to wind down my volume and intensity in preparations for a a "big block" of training racing. While many coaches believe in athletes racing only a few races, I have always pretty much believed the opposite. At this point my development, is all about that, simply development. Until I'm a world class athletes that needs to show up at a race with a certain set of expectations of winning, I will continue to advance my abilities and testing them thru frequent racing. That doesn't mean I go out and hammer myself into the ground but every race I do has a very specific purpose.

As for training specifics, well it was business as usual in the earlier part of the week as I focused on a lot of shorter race efforts in preparation for my race at the inaugural Rev3 Wisconsin Dells half-Ironman triathlon. This mainly consisted of 4x8 on the bike at 70.3 race effort, 7x800 on the run at 70.3 effort. I took a rest day on Friday and it was perfect timing as I had a high-performance SSD hard drive fail on me earlier in the week and it gave me a chance to rebuild my computer. I throw that in there because yes, SSD hard drives can fail, so back them up. I also took a lighter Saturday which included biking to the pool with a couple of 3 min race efforts mixed in, and then a short 1500 meter swim with 5 descending 100s.